Re: [linuxdc-dev]Mplayer

[Karl T. K. <ka...@pr...>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> I have just noticed, on a trawl around for appropriate rpms for my Red Hat Box 
> - that there are RPMs for this app doing the rounds. Does this mean we can 
> now package this for the DC?

It would be rather worthless as many of the most interesting codecs are
binary-only, and the rest are x86 tuned using assembly.

In general, mplayer is a big, functional pile of nasty code. It does
have some interesting stream-handling code, that does a pretty good job of
parsing bad video/audio streams, but we'd probably be better off just
borrowing that code and putting it into a new, cleaner player.

Perhaps Gstreamer is a good candidate here. I suppose glib-2.0 compiles
nicely ?


Karl T